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Description
A redesign of the Skulk alien unit from Unknown World's "Natural Selection 2".

I imagined the Skulk as a mass produced form for the Hive to use as scouts and grunts. They live very short and intense lives as their unfinished bodies reduce their life span and exist soley on the minimum of the Hive's resources. Despite this their tenacity and adaptability make them a major threat, with lethal jaws that snap like an axe, great speed, an ability to climb, and a stock of parasites within it's body it can fire at enemies in order to track them.

Headcanon stuff:
"The Hive Strain of the Kharaa bacteria developed when the Almanac race accidentally spread the common strain (seen on worlds such as Planet-4546B) across the galaxy one thousand years ago. The Kharaa encountered the origin species of the Skulk and it's kin forms and developed a unique symbiosis similar to us and our gut bacteria, though far beyond that. As their homeworld was dying, the Ancestor Species started to dominate the vacant niches of the planet, diversifying in form, and slowly developed the hive social system.
Due to the short amount of time of this development, the species forms are as genetically close to each other as one breed of dog to another. The Skulk is the closest to a "base" form."

Description
A redesign of the Skulk alien unit from Unknown World's "Natural Selection 2".

I imagined the Skulk as a mass produced form for the Hive to use as scouts and grunts. They live very short and intense lives as their unfinished bodies reduce their life span and exist soley on the minimum of the Hive's resources. Despite this their tenacity and adaptability make them a major threat, with lethal jaws that snap like an axe, great speed, an ability to climb, and a stock of parasites within it's body it can fire at enemies in order to track them.

Headcanon stuff:
"The Hive Strain of the Kharaa bacteria developed when the Almanac race accidentally spread the common strain (seen on worlds such as Planet-4546B) across the galaxy one thousand years ago. The Kharaa encountered the origin species of the Skulk and it's kin forms and developed a unique symbiosis similar to us and our gut bacteria, though far beyond that. As their homeworld was dying, the Ancestor Species started to dominate the vacant niches of the planet, diversifying in form, and slowly developed the hive social system.
Due to the short amount of time of this development, the species forms are as genetically close to each other as one breed of dog to another. The Skulk is the closest to a "base" form."